7. For you provoked your Makerwith sacrifices to demons and not to God;
8. You forgot the eternal God who nourished you,and you grieved Jerusalem who nurtured you.
9. She indeed saw coming upon youthe wrath of God; and she said:“Hear, you neighbors of Zion!God has brought great mourning upon me,
10. For I have seen the captivitythat the Eternal One has broughtupon my sons and daughters.
11. With joy I nurtured them;but with mourning and lament I sent them away.
12. Let no one gloat over me,a widow, bereft of many;For the sins of my children I am left desolate,because they turned from the law of God,
13. and did not acknowledge his statutes;In the ways of God’s commandments they did not walk,nor did they tread the disciplined paths of his justice.